Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares. Marginal and interlinear notes accompany the text of each letter (except for that to P. Vatinius appearing on ff. 26v-27v which was copied twice, apparently in error). Written probably for use as a school text (vocabulary lists on ff. 4 and 9).
Description:
Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Vellum case; spine fragile and splitting., Script: Written by a single scribe in gothic cursive, with a smaller script for glosses., Simple initials in red at the beginning of each letter; titles preceded by paragraph marks, and underlined, in red., and Watermarks: unidentified letter P in gutter.
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment of Ambrose, Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam. With Acts of the synod of Piacenza, March 1095 (Urban II), chs. 1-14.
Description:
Binding: 1800-1810, Italy. Half bound in brown calf with bright pink paper sides that have been covered with tan paper; edges spattered blue-green. Two gold-tooled labels on spine, the first left blank and the lower one reading "Saecul XII". Bound in the same distinctive style as Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 151, 153, 159, and 197, also from the Cisterican abbey of Hautecombe. and Numerous pen and ink initials of good quality, 8- to 3-line, drawn in red. The initials are constructed of thick vine stems, divided in half and swelling at the ends, issuing sprouts of intertwining stylized foliage. On f. 10v the letter E is formed from a bird and its extended wing; on ff. 75r and 103r the initials terminate in animal heads. The most important initials, ff. 1v, 13r, 36v, 62r, 75r, 114r, 115v and 119v, are touched with patches of ochre and summary modelling in the same color. On f. 1v the continuation capitals are filled in with red and ochre. Plain initials and headings in red. Remains of instructions to the rubricator along outer edge perpendicular to text (e.g., ff. 119v, 120v).
Subject (Name):
Urban--II,--Pope,--ca. 1042-1099
Subject (Topic):
Bible. N.T. Luke --Commentaries--Early works to 1800, Bible--Commentaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Papal documents
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735 Remigius, of Auxerre, ca. 841-908
Published / Created:
[between 1300 and 1350]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 80
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (sturdy but of uneven weight; no watermarks, wavering chain-lines ca. 53 mm. apart) of a collection of excerpts from Biblical commentaries and sermons by patristic writers. Mainly drawn from Remigius of Auxerre, Expositio super Matthaeum; and Bede, Expositio super Lucam. Also includes texts by Leo, Gregory, Gualterus Anglicus, Augustine, Anselm, Ambrose, and Boethius. Sermons written for feast days and about the Passion of Christ.
Description:
Binding: Date? Square, flush boards. Trimmed out turn-ins suggest a late date. Covered in vellum with contents and a compass-drawn circle on lower cover., Initials (3-line), paragraph marks, underlining and strokes on 1-line capitals in red., and Script: Written mostly by one scribe, perhaps over a period of time, in a small gothic book hand with many abbreviations. Additions by slightly later hands in more or less formal script, e.g. ff. 1v, 3r-5v, 87v-105v.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ--Passion and Remigius,--of Auxerre,--ca. 841-908
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--N.T.--Luke, Bible.--N.T.--Matthew, Catenae, Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Autograph manuscript transcribed by William Partridge. Pages 67-137 contain "A compendium of logick, according to the modern philosophy, extracted from Le-grand & others their systems." This is followed by shorthand notes. Given by Partridge to Timothy Edwards, and later owned by Jonathan Edwards when a student at Yale in 1718. A note in F. B. Dexter’s hand says the book was also used by Warham Mather. On the verso of the first leaf: "Jonathan Edward’s Book 1751."
Subject (Name):
Harvard University --Students, Partridge, William, 1669-1693, Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572, and Yale University --Students
Subject (Topic):
Logic --Study and teaching --Early works to 1800 and Shorthand--Early works to 1800
Initials (?) on title page: B.D.B. Manuscript note on page 172: Nil advo[?] paruum est, tibi quin solatia pro[ce]ssit [undeciphered] punctum unum grande te[?]num hab[undeciphered].